CARDASSIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA
First uploaded December 2004. Major revision November 2008.
A work in progress. This Encyclopedia will
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A Anatomy - The Cardassian body Animals - Known animals in the Cardassian Union B Behavior - The Cardassian mindset C Cardassia Prime - Home planet that serves as the base for Central Command headquarters. DS9: Tribunal Cardassian Union - planets and affiliations of the Cardassian Union Cuisine - Cardassian food and drink Cuellar Nor - The Cuellar System is located along the Federation/Cardassian border, near several Federation sectors. In 2365, the Cardassian Union established a small scientific colony on Cuellar II, along with Cuellar Nor, a large science station in orbit, supposedly to study ancient ruins on the planet's surface. Actually, Cuellar Nor was established as a military supply depot and launching point into Federation space, in the event of renewed hostilities between the Union and the Federation. Cardassian supply ships, running with high-energy sub-space fields to shield them from sensor scans, made regular visits to Cuellar Nor carrying weapons and other military supplies. In 2367, the Federation starship U.S.S. Phoenix attacked and destroyed Cuellar Nor without warning. TNG: The Wounded D Detapa Council - the civilian government E Empok Nor - (trans. 3rd. Station) Empok Nor was a Cardassian space station located in the Trivas system, almost identical to Terok Nor (later known as Deep Space 9). By the 2370s, it had been long-abandoned and routinely booby-trapped against non-Cardassians. The station had been the site of a failed experiment that used psychotropic drugs to enhance the Cardassians' natural xenophobia. The test subjects, three members of the First Order, Third Battalion, were left on the station in stasis tubes. In late 2373, a Starfleet salvage team from Deep Space 9 was sent to Empok Nor for spare parts, because of a recent plague of technical failures on its sister station, DS9. During the mission, the two surviving soldiers in stasis were re-awakened and killed three members of the team before they were stopped. Garak was also exposed to the psychotropic drug and killed a fourth member of the team before he was neutralized by Chief Miles O'Brien. Eventually the technology was successfully salvaged. DS9: "Empok Nor" Later in 2374, Quark chose Empok Nor to be the site for the exchange between several Ferengi and the Dominion of Keevan for Ishka, who had been taken prisoner by the Dominion. Keevan was accidentally killed before the exchange was to take place, but Quark and the others managed to bluff the opposing side long enough for Ishka to be returned. Keevan's body was left aboard the station. (DS9: "The Magnificent Ferengi") |
Finally, in 2375, Dukat brought fifty members of the Cult of the Pah-wraiths to establish a community on Empok Nor with him as their master. He had Colonel Kira Nerys kidnapped from Deep Space 9 in an effort to convert her. Dukat fled the station when his control over his followers unraveled, and the remaining Cult members decided to return to Bajor with Kira aboard the USS Defiant. (DS9: "Covenant") F-G-H History of the Cardassian Union J-K-L Labor Camps and Settlements on Bajor and Cardassia Lek - 1) Resource. 2) Basic unit of money in the Cardassian System. 3) -lek Suffix used after the socially acceptable classes of society. The Lek is the uniform currency of the Cardassian Union. M N-O Oralius - Major god of the ancient Hebitians, still worshipped by a few religious Cardassians who follow the Oralian Way. P Plants - Named plants and flowers in the Cardassian Union. Psychology - The Cardassian mindset Physiology - The Cardassian body Q - R - S Sentok Nor - A space station used as a Jem'Hadar hatchery and ship maintenance facility in orbit around Betazed during the Dominion War. it was also a base of operations for Dr. Crell Moset's experimental efforts to give telepathic skills to the Jem'Hadar. The station was destroyed in 2375 by a Starfleet infiltration team. TNG novel: The Battle of Betazed. T Technology - PADD's communicators, etc.
Weapons
hand-held and space weaponry |
Entries have been gleaned from existing Cardassian sources. "A Stitch in Time" by Andrew Robinson, Star Trek Encyclopedia 1999, http://us.geocities.com/verania/ds9/astro/cardassia.html, http://www.teroknor.net , Memory Alpha and Memory Beta Wikis , www.startrek.com , www.ditl.org , http://www.ucip.org/thorkahn/Cardassian/index.htm and many Star Trek episodes and licensed novels and reference books, which are credited within.
Updated November 2008 by the webmaster Carol Thompson.